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Agawa (surname)
Agawa (written: 阿川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese writer *, Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and writer *, Japanese writer and television personality {{surname, Agawa Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Agawa
(December 24, 1920 – August 3, 2015) was a Japanese people, Japanese author. He was known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays. Literary career Agawa was born in Hiroshima, Japan. As a high school student Agawa was influenced by the Japanese author Naoya Shiga. He entered the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Imperial University to study Japanese literature. Upon graduation in 1942, Agawa was military conscription, conscripted to serve in the Imperial Japanese Navy, where he worked as an intelligence officer breaking Chinese military codes until the end of the war. He returned to Hiroshima, where his parents had experienced the atomic bomb, in March 1946. After World War II Agawa wrote his first short story ''Nennen Saisai'' (Years upon Years, 1946), which was a classic I Novel, or autobiographical novel, recounting the reunion with his parents. It follows the style of Naoya Shiga, who is said to have praised the work. ''August 6'' as Agaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoyuki Agawa
is a Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and author. He has been a professor of law at Keio University since 1999; Early life Naoyuki was born in Tokyo in 1951. He is the son of the novelist and historian Hiroyuki Agawa. His younger sister is the writer and Japanese television personality Sawako Agawa. Naoyuki undergraduate education began at Keio University; but in 1975, he transferred in 1975 to Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ... in Washington, DC. He graduated magna cum laude in 1977 from the School of Foreign Service. He returned to Japan after earning his B.S.F.S.; but he would return to Georgetown, earning a Juris Doctor, J.D. degree in 1984. Career In 1977, Naoyuki joined the Sony Corporation, working in Tokyo on matters relating to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |